Windows VS Linux (part 2)(lemmy.world)

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stetech@lemmy.world

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1 month ago

Well, it was what happened the last time I touched Windows in ‘22 (for work) – maybe a policy thing that a corporate app had elevated access and that’s why it forced a reboot on me for (some of the) “regular” app updates?

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tsugu@slrpnk.net

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1 month ago

That’s more likely.

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stetech@lemmy.world

3 points

1 month ago

Good to challenge misconceptions regularly, so thank you! :D

On that topic… I assume not being able to move opened files (my “go-to” use case was a PDF in Acrobat) is still unfixed though, right? Seems like that’d require a major OS and applications change to be made possible.

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frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe

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1 month ago

Why would you want to mv, not cp, a file that is actively opened by a file system. Is that even possible on Linux? I could swear I’m regularly blocked from manipulating things with open file descriptors.

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stetech@lemmy.world

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1 month ago

Like tsugu said. Have a file open for editing or whatever and realizing you’d like it to go into another directory. Of course you could just wait until you’re done and then move, or close, move and re-open… but that’s less convenient (e.g. throwing away current file’s edit history) and/or a risk of forgetting to actually do it, at least for me, lol.

Not sure about Linux, but I grew up on Unix (macOS), which forces applications (at least GUI based ones, CLI apps do whatever they want) to be able to deal with this, so that’s why I expected Windows to be able to do that as well. Alas…

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1 month ago

That I can confirm. Windows won’t let me move files if any app is using them. I sometimes do it by accident when I’m editin an office document, realize it’s in the wrong folder so I try to drag it to Documents. That won’t work. But I got used to it pretty quickly.

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